WORKING IN A SYSTEM AND INTER-DEPENDENCY

I think it is very easy to walk alone if the way and the destination is clear, if one is clear about the destination even the paths can be searched out or can be made anew. In this case the command giver and commander taker are same, decision taking authority is in one own hand, when to act, when to walk, when to halt is decided by you. One who make the plan and one who do the appraisal are the same i.e. you. Sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed, you learn from your failures and your successes give you impetus and energy to keep moving. Analytically it looks very comfortable and easy as you are independent in all the way, every credit or discredit goes to you. You have a very little or no connection with the world and worldly dynamics and activities affect you a little. You feel happy, burden free, responsible and accountable to yourself only, it looks that a world created by you is your own.

But when you come in the systems be it home, religions, institutions etc. it becomes necessary for you to walk along with others, diffuse your little world in bigger world, become we from I, responsibilities become collective not individual since you are a unit in a big system, your actions are now guided, directed and disciplined, you had to follow some code of conducts, most of the things are already decided for you by some people, your own ways are lost now in the wilderness of role and duties, you are doing something with undecided purposes as a systemic routine activity, your questions become annoyance and a sign of danger. You could not take little decisions even for yourself, smaller things become complicated and made you think for hours without any result or conclusion, because some decisions are already taken, others will be taken by someone else who is rarely aware of the reality. Slowly and slowly your concerns fade away from the minds and systemic obligations becomes your foremost duties although you don’t want to carry out those duties. In simple words you are on the regressive path where you don’t know where to go but you are going aimlessly.

You will be having ideas which can deal with real situations but could not implement those because implementation key is in someone else hands. Systems make you mechanical, regiment you, trained your mind to think in a particular pattern, kill and discourage queries and logical clarifications. In simple term our systems corrupt us in every manner and then blame the malfunctioning and chronic low performances of the system. It can be true, but the question is who comprise the system? Every person in a particular setup from peon to a director, from a child to elder most member, from a gate keeper to an office bearer all are the units of a system. And it is obvious that if systems are corrupt, we are also corrupt because systems work like a machine where each part of machine need to work properly, deformity or disorder in one unit/part can affect the whole system. And this is what happens. But majority of the time it looks that deformities occurs in main parts of the systems and these deformities affect or paralyze other units too. This is why if you are in a system, you cannot work or perform not because of your fault but because of systemic fault. But the question is who has the key to keep the system going and work properly, I guess the answer can be simple every single unit of machinery(system) i.e. we.

SHAFIQ
Rudraprayag